August 2018 Grocery Challenge

Hi All, I need to get back on track in August the bill has been creeping up for months and I'm ashamed to say when returning from shopping on Saturday I had to throw almost a bag full of shopping away from the previous week.....as someone who hates waste I can't believe I let this happen. :mad:

So can you put me down for £320.

This is for 3 adults, all food (breakfast, packed lunches and dinners, cleaning and toiletries ). Plus dinner for 5 once a week when my daughter and her partner visit.

I'm hoping to keep my August spends low as we're away for part of it. I'd like to keep my spends to £350 as I've got enough meat in the freezer and some store cupboard bits to use up. Going to try and make a few cakes/biscuits to help keep costs down.

Hi I'd like to join again please and even though I was under budget in July I'm going keep my budget of £475 because there are 5 Fridays in this month and that is when I do my shopping, and the kids are off school so will need to make packed lunches which I don't normally do.

Late to the party here! Please could you put me down for £400? That's perhaps a bit unambitious, as we've lost one inhabitant (DS2, gone to share a house with a friend down in the city) and will lose another in a couple of weeks when he goes back to his new uni "digs", also sharing with a friend, in the next city up the coast going east! So that's for 4 adults, 2 of them pescatarian, 4 cats, 14 chickens (hopefully going back down to 11 shortly) and 2 cockatiels. Shouldn't need anything much for the livestock, as we're well stocked-up at the moment, but the two kittens are currently eating an astonishing amount so that may vary.

I'm allowing £400 because I'm out of practice, but am hoping to come in well under that and pull back hard until Christmas. We have one birthday this month - OH - which shouldn't be too expensive. I've now handed over day-to-day responsibility for my mother to my middle brother; we've moved her to a bungalow just 50 yards from his front door over the last month. This will make an amazing difference to the time I have available for cooking/preserving/budgeting and even housework! The allotment is in full production, and looking fairly tidy; my aim there is to re-plant as soon as things come out, so that we have plenty in the ground & well-grown for the winter.

In other news, DD1 has taken a job at a well-known supermarket whilst polishing up the 57th draft of her novel. Which means that once she's completed her probationary period, we can take advantage of her substantial staff discount, for anything we need to buy from a supermarket. Every little helps, as they say!

£100 for me again, please! Hopefully achievable.